EEB Seminar Series – Spring 2016
- ** denotes location and/or time change
- All seminars are on Mondays at 3:30 pm unless noted otherwise.
| Date & Time | Location | Title | Speaker |
| Jan 25 3:30 pm |
302 Rudder Tower | No seminar – EEB faculty meeting | |
| CANCELLED Feb 1 3:30 pm |
302 Rudder Tower | THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED Body size evolution and sexual size dimorphism in amniotes: works in progress |
Jesse Meik, Dept of Biological Sciences, Tarleton State University Hosted by Michelle Lawing |
| Feb 8 3:30 pm |
302 Rudder Tower | Hormone-mediated long-term effects of early life stress in wild birds |
Jacquelyn Grace,
Fyssen Postdoctoral Fellow Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de Chizé, France (Job Candidate for Dept. Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences) |
| ** Feb 11 (Thursday) 4 pm |
** 110 Koldus ****note day, time and location change |
Selection and gene flow in early stages of divergence: Consequences on evolutionary and contemporary scales | Philip Lavretsky, Postdoctoral Researcher University of Miami (Job Candidate for Dept. Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences) |
| Feb 15 | No seminar | ||
| Feb 22 3:30 pm |
2405 MSC | Student Seminar Carol Arantes – Influence of deforestation on fish assemblages in the Amazon River. Sarah Flanagan – Population genomics reveals multiple drivers of population differentiation in a sex-role-reversed pipefish. Chin Heo – Sensitivity of arthropod and microbial communities associated with vertebrate carrion in response to delayed blow fly colonization. Pre-Seminar Social and Refreshments at 3:00pm |
Carol Arantes Sarah Flanagan Chin Heo |
| Feb 29 3:30 pm |
2405 MSC | Interacting traits and secret senses – Arachnids as models for studies of behavioral evolution | Eileen Hebets, School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska Hosted by Spence Behmer |
| Mar 7 3:30 pm |
302 Rudder Tower | Behavioral defenses in host-parasitoid interactions | Todd Schlenke, Dept of Biology, Reed College Hosted by Aaron Tarone & Mariana Mateos |
| Mar 14 |
No seminar – Spring Break |
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| Mar 21 3:30 pm |
302 Rudder Tower | Body size, introgression, and mitogenomic evolutionary dynamics in insular speckled rattlesnakes | Jesse Meik, Dept of Biological Sciences, Tarleton State University Hosted by Michelle Lawing |
| Mar 28 3:30 pm |
302 Rudder Tower | Mesozoic marine communities and the extinctions that shaped them |
Rowan Martindale, Dept of Geological Sciences, University of Texas Hosted by Thomas Olszewski |
| Apr 4 |
No seminar |
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| Apr 11 3:30 pm |
302 Rudder Tower | Kings, queens, neotenics and half-clones: Colony breeding structure in subterranean termites | Ed Vargo, Dept of Entomology, Texas A&M University |
| Apr 18 3:30 pm |
302 Rudder Tower | Invasion biology and management: Much progress, but some people don’t like it | Dan Simberloff, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennesee Knoxville Hosted by Greg Sword |
| Apr 25 3:30 pm |
302 Rudder Tower | Responses of soil microbial communities to environmental perturbations | Dave Myrold, Crop and Soil Sciences, Oregon State University Hosted by Tom Boutton |
| May 2 **4 pm |
ISLB Auditorium | The genetic basis of speciation and adaptation in house mice | Michael Nachman, Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley Genetics/Genomics Seminar ** Note time |